Indana Jones

Anything has to be better than Phantom Menace, the three recent "Star Wars" movies and possibly Jedi were an insult
What the hell was Jar Jar Binks meant to be??  Now's there's a character that adds no value. I was also bitterly dissapointed that Boba Fett turned out to be a New Zealander and the bloke that played Uncle Owen,... he's a twat.

"Indian Jones, by the Power of Greyskull" is sure to be a hit

 

It got a 78% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

WTF does the WSJ know about movies? They barely know *feces* about stocks.

The local paper has a pretty luke-warm review too, but that guy's a pompous windbag. I'm excited for it, but perhaps not as excited as Laura is.

ambivalence!

i rewatched the early trilogy this week on usa-hd/ sci-fi hd.

summary of nostalgia/more critical 'grown up' analysis (i had last seen these about 15 years ago)

i remembered really liking the 3rd one more than the 1st, and thinking the 2nd one was quasi-comical in its attempt to be dark while coming off very campish.

now, i feel the 1st is far far better than either, while the 3rd actually comes off as equal to if not far more a parody and campy dreck than the 2nd thanks to the ridiculously over-the-top anti-nazism, pro-judeo/xtian moralism, and ridiculous try-too-hard-to-look-like-you-arent-trying  performances of sean connery and  denholm elliott.  at least in temple of doom the corny jokes worked between indy and mola ram, and the annoying performance of short round is kind of acceptable since he's a kid.

I liked Temple of Doom when I first saw it in the theater as a kid. It has not held up well in subsequent viewings, and anymore, with the exception of a couple of great scenes, I consider it nearly unwatchable. I also remembered thinking Last Crusade was better than Raiders upon first viewing, but my opinion on that has shifted and I now consider the first to be the best of the series, by a long shot. Though I did enjoy Connery's performance in the third.

One of the local critics (who is a self-avowed geek, and with whom I generally tend to side on these types of movies) said this one is about on par with The Last Crusade- not great, but not terrible. He also said it almost seemed like a torch-passing to Shia LaBeouf. Apparently there is discussion about a spin-off series?